Originally Posted by JT
Our preferred technique to get down quickly was to slow up at height, gear down, boards up on the jets (with due regard to any flap limitations), flaps to approach (with regard to the normal level restrictions on flap), idle thrust .. and then vary the descent profile with IAS.
- still the best option, especially with the now common restriction of not more than 3000fpm within 3000' of MSA, although few I flew with seemed to understand gradients etc.